LaunchDarkly Reviews & Product Details

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, LaunchDarkly serves over 5,500 enterprises, including a quarter of the Fortune 500. As the industry’s leading end-to-end feature management platform, LaunchDarkly enables software and AI development teams to de-risk every release, accelerate AI development, remove barriers to experimentation, and increase developer productivity. By separating feature releases from deployments, teams can ship confidently, experiment safely, and continuously optimize software delivery—ensuring governance, control, and velocity at scale. The LaunchDarkly platform is built on four core components that enable teams to release with confidence and drive business impact. Guarded Releases provide real-time monitoring, progressive rollouts, and instant rollbacks, allowing teams to minimize risk and prevent faulty features from impacting users. AI Configurations enable teams to iterate on models and prompts in real time, refining AI behavior without requiring redeployment. Experimentation unifies feature delivery and testing, helping teams analyze feature performance and ship the best-performing variations based on real data. Release Management standardizes best practices at scale, providing automated rollout pipelines, structured governance, and real-time visibility into release health. At its core, LaunchDarkly empowers organizations to move faster while reducing risk. With automated feature rollouts, real-time release insights, and seamless integration with CI/CD workflows and data platforms like Snowflake, development teams can increase productivity, reduce downtime, and bring new innovations to market faster than ever. Organizations that adopt LaunchDarkly gain a competitive edge by accelerating release velocity, minimizing risk, and continuously optimizing customer experiences to maximize business impact.

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Product Description

LaunchDarkly's vision is to eliminate risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. As companies transition to a world built on software, there is an increasing requirement to move quickly, balanced with the desire to maintain control. LaunchDarkly is the feature management platform to control the whole feature lifecycle from Concept → Launch → Value.

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Regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. Connect critical metrics to your release process, so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.

Track the progression of a feature flag across a series of phases, where each phase consists of one or more environments.

Target groups of contexts individually or by attribute. Contexts are people, services, machines, or other resources that encounter feature flags in your product.

Design experiments that measure business-critical user flows and provide results specific to those product funnels. Measure multi-step user journeys. Determine whether you’re getting the conversions that you want with all your metrics visible in one place.

How to roll out a feature to 1% of users and then scale safely.

How to set up a kill switch in production

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Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/7/2025

"Flexible Feature Management"

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

Feature flags and targeted releases help our team reduce risk while shipping faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

No significant downsides; it’s working well for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the thoughtful review! It’s great to know it’s working well for your needs and helping your day-to-day work.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/17/2025

"Clear and Intuitive User Interface"

4.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

The user interface is clear, making it easy to navigate, and the roll-out features are particularly convenient and useful. It's also very user-friendly to implement a feature flag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

For operations not covered by the SDK (Java), the API SLOs aren't trustable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you find the UI intuitive and the roll-out features useful. We appreciate your note on API reliability and will share it with our team.

Jwalit S.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2025

"Overall Great Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

User splitting is very clear and the dashboard is clean, easy to use, and the SDKs work well across platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Sometimes the SDK setup feels a bit complex, particularly with multiple environments and custom contexts. The documentation, while detailed, could be clearer with more real-world examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/7/2025

"Excellent service that helps us roll out and roll back features with relative ease"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

It's very intuitive and I love that we can roll back changes at the flick of a button rather than having to roll back our entire app stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Implementing the code in your application requires some effort, but once it's in place, it's a dream to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for the kind words! We’re glad LaunchDarkly is making it easy for your team to manage feature rollouts and rollbacks and appreciate you sticking with us.

Verified User in Market Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/18/2025

"Launchdarkly is a great tool"

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly provides a feature to create project IDs and map feature flags to them. You can define feature flags across different environments (e.g., dev, int, prod) and utilize them within your project as needed.

This setup allows for flexible control over feature rollout and environment-specific behavior, making it easier to manage releases and test features safely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

instead of variation we can have options to directly assign some value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for sharing your experience! We're glad LaunchDarkly’s environment-specific controls are helping you manage releases safely and with more flexibly.

Sneha V.

Engineering leader

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/1/2025

"Good and comfortable with slight tweaks that can be made better"

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

user level/ role level feature flag handling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

easier way to adapt when there is % rollout - maybe also add shards where this is rolled out fleibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear LaunchDarkly's role-level feature flag handling is working well for you, and we appreciate your input on improving percentage rollouts. You might find our documentation on percentage rollout logic and progressive rollouts helpful for more flexible rollout strategies.

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Marcin P.

Lead Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/6/2025

"Good tool for managing feature flags."

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

1. Allowing business users to field-test new features in production before enabling them for clients.

2. Enabling gradual rollouts for high-risk features, minimizing potential impact if issues arise.

3. Decoupling feature releases from development and deployment, so developers can merge tested features while product teams control when they go live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Nothing really. It does good job managing feature flags. We only use it for feature flags, so can't comment on other features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows the business to validate features in production environment before enabling such feature for Clients/Users.

It also ads the ability to deploy a new feature gradually, to beta tester clients first and then simply toogle the flag to enable that feature for other users.

Engineers don't need to worry about feature release schedule if a feature is behind a feature flag. This helps with continous integration/deployment practices. Business can decide when to enable features by managing feature flags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj K.

Engineering Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Easy to use and integrate with the codebase"

4/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

LaunchDarkly is one of the most robust SaaS apps I have encountered. Its intuitive UI and easy-to-use interface make it easy for first-time users, too. The one thing that was outstanding was how easy it was to integrate with the codebase and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

The current RBAC settings lack enough granularity as may be required in an enterprise setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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We're glad to hear LaunchDarkly was easy to use and integrate. Thank you for your feedback on how we could improve our RBAC settings and for being a customer!

Julia L.

QA Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/22/2025

"Great experience!"

5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

Easy to use. User experience is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

Not much. Happy to use myself and with my team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Micaela Durkin of LaunchDarkly

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Thanks for the kind words! We're so glad to hear that you and your team find LaunchDarkly easy to use and enjoy the overall user experience. We love having you onboard!

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/28/2025

"Provides adequate levels of detail for all roles in a squad"

3.5/5

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly?

As a PM, I've appreciated the ease of use when setting up experiments and viewing results across multiple treatment groups, metrics and experiments running in parallel. I am looking forward to more data vis for results in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly?

An improvement would be providing the ability to preview the experiment control and treatment groups natively before going live as a final quality assurance measure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Coleman of LaunchDarkly

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Thank you for your detailed feedback! We’re glad to hear how LaunchDarkly has supported your experimentation workflows. Your suggestions about previewing experiments before going live and more robust data visualizations are insightful. We’ve shared them with our team and we are looking forward to making the product even better for you.